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SecureCRT

Score9.3 out of 10

23 Reviews and Ratings

What is SecureCRT?

SecureCRT provides secure remote access, file transfer, and data tunneling for everyone in your organizatiom.

Categories & Use Cases

Manage your network easily with SecureCRT

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SecureCRT is used to manage our network devices and create quick scripts to push command and changes to our devices. Managing Network switches easily with taps and opening multiple sessions at the same time is save time of repeating the process for each switch. For our case we have more than 300 network switches to handle and manage in a daily basis, and with SecureCRT is making managing that easy and smooth.

Pros

  • Multiple sessions at same time
  • support for SSH and Telnet
  • creating folders and organizing your infrastructure devices.

Cons

  • Licensing price need to be checked again
  • changes UI for modern look and feel
  • adding more scripts options

Return on Investment

  • save time and money
  • quick way to access and trouble shoot network issues
  • cost reduction to avoid hiring extra staff.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

MobaXTerm and HashiCorp Terraform

Excellent product.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SecureCRT helped us to access multiple networking sessions at the same time. The product is extremely helpful to network engineers without the need to remember the IP address of each and every device in the network. It allows us to transfer multiple commands to different sessions at the same time which makes our job much easier. In addition to that, it can assist with network automation and scripting as well.

Pros

  • Allows configuration of multiple network devices at the same time.
  • While doing network configurations we are able to monitor and log the sessions.
  • Able to select/highlight multiple text files from the network configurations as we display the show version or show tech-support commands.

Cons

  • There are not many areas where they can improve already a great product.

Most Important Features

  • Accessing CLI sessions.
  • Network scripting.
  • Session logging.

Return on Investment

  • Ease of use.
  • Backup in case of a mis-configuration.
  • Logging of any troubleshooting session.